I was in maybe third or fourth grade when our teacher brought a pomegranate to school and scooped out the "goodies" for each of us to taste. Back in those days our small-town grocery store didn't get in much of anything except oranges, apples and bananas. I think the teacher had been to a larger town and brought it back.

Too bad there aren't films of Julia Child cutting them. I think she threatened to use a fire axe once. Seriously, I think I saw her demonstrating how to cut those things up quite easily. My wife just did two the other day, looks like a bunch of red seeds.

I never knew anyone had trouble opening a Pomegranate. My wife eats them often, since they are quite popular in her home of China. Now slicing a mango to get maximum mangoage is a whole different proposition.